Monumenta Altaica

About the project MONUMENTA ALTAICA
This site is devoted to the languages of Altai family. Here you can get a free access to the great amount of texts in ancient and modern altaic languages: Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu-tungus, Korean and Japanese. Also you can find here papers on altaic linguistics, biographies of famous scholars in the field of Altaic studies, bibliographies of linguistic studies, links to grammars and dictionaries and a lot of other information. I greatly appreciate and encourage any proposals of what may be placed on this site.

News

News of Monumenta Altaica

18th of November 2009
I'm glad to present a web-page devoted to the famous specialist in Mongolian Studies, Boris Vladimircov. There you can find almost half of his works, including the classical book 'A comparative grammar of Written Mongolian language and Khalkha dialect',

4nd of October 2009

Dear colleagues!
With great sorrow I have to inform all of you that Liya Sergeyevna Levitskaya (1931-2009), an outstanding specialist in Turkic linguistics, comparative grammar of Turkic languages, Turkic etymology, historical phonetics and morphology of Chuvash language, the author of Historical morphology of Chuvash , passed away on Friday, 02 October 2009.

13th of August 2009

The famous work of Andras Róna-Tas Tibeto-Mongolica (1966) devoted to the interaction of Monguor and archaic Tibetan dialects.
12th of July 2009
E.S.Soroçanu kindly allowed to publish her books on Gagauz:

E.S.SOROÇANU. Gagauzlarin kalendar adetleri (Гагаузская календарная обрядность) (In Russian and Gagauz).

E.C.Сорочяну. Гагаузский язык и его диалекты .
20th of June
Recent paper of Elena Kalinina on Modern Negidal vowel system.
20th of April 2009
Easter greetings to all of you, my readers and friends. Christ is Risen! And here are Easter presents:

The famous paper of the origin of Korean accent: S. Robert Ramsey Proto-Korean and the Origin of Korean accent

The first Japanese grammar on my site: Oxford Japanese Grammar and Verbs. 2003. (pdf, 39Mb).

The best of Manchu dictionaries ever published: Захаров И. Полный маньчжурско-русскiй словарь. Санктпетербургъ, 1875. (Zakharov. Manchu-Russian dictionary)

One of the best Mongolic dictionaries: Ramstedt G.J. Kalmykisches Wörterbuch(pdf, 50Mb)

Actual dictionary of Khalkha Mongolian: Д.Ульгийсайхан, Л.Г.Скородумова. Современный монгольско-русский тематический словарь. М., 2008 (Ulgiysaykhan, Skorodumova, Modern Mongol-Russian subject dictionary)

Classical work on one of the minority Turkic languages: Рассадин В.И. Фонетика и лексика тофаларского языка (djvu, 11Mb)(Rassadin, Phonetics and Lexicon of Tofalar)

31st of December 2008
Dear Friends!
Thank you very much for your continuous attention to my site all these years. I'd like to thank everyone who helped me in compiling this on-line collection of linguistic materials. I wish all my guests Happy New Year and Merry Christmas! Let the Next Year bring light and love to your heart and your home. As a present I'd like to present :) a famous Turkic dictionary of W. Radloff: "Versuch eines Wörterbuch der Türk-Dialekte." (in Russian and German).
17th of December 2008
In Papers section there is now

M.Shogaito. On Uighur elements in Buddhist Mongolian texts. //Memoires of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, 1991, #49 (pdf)
16th of December 2008

I.J.Schmidt. Grammatik der Mongolischen Sprache, 1831. (7Mb)

I've added links to Etymological dictionaries of Turkish on-line
26th of November 2008

I'm glad to present a Collection of Selected Works of Nicholas Poppe. It includes about one third (over 70 books and papers) of all his works, including Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Altmongolischen Schriftsprache, Монгольские названия животных в труде Хамдаллаха Казвини, Remarks on The Salar Language, A fragment of the Bodhicaryavatara from Olon Sume, Introduction to Mongolian Comparative Studies, Jakutische Etymologien, The Primary long Vowels in Mongolian, Introduction to Altaic Linguistics, On Chuvash-Mongolian Linguistic Contacts, Chaladsch und die Altaische Sprachwissenschaft and many others.

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